12020-05-13T19:51:43+00:00KSL Exhibitsad59ae249b808d7092ad4d02c088e1a23747e128836Man and child in front of a multi-family residental building.plain2020-09-24T21:59:19+00:00KSL Exhibitsad59ae249b808d7092ad4d02c088e1a23747e128
The Outhwaite Homes are located at E. 46th & E.55th Sts. between Central & Quincy Aves. in Cleveland, Ohio.
Initially public housing in Cleveland was exclusively for white individuals and families. Later developments, like Cleveland’s Outhwaite Homes, were reserved for African Americans. Overtly racist public housing policies were repealed by the end of WW2. Though, segregationist attitudes persisted well into the 1970s and most of the public housing developments on Cleveland's westside remained white only. Public housing in the U.S. was deliberately segregated imposing a legacy that contributes to present day racial and socio-economic divisions in residential America.
